Yes, you can be against both. Again, I’m not saying this isn’t gross, and leave the door open to be against it one day. Just not as moved by reading about the gross excess of capitalism as it pertains to animal sport the same way I am about human sport. Yes, you can tell your family off, but I mean Andrew Luck made QB…

ok so we’ve moved on to watching humans fight in an octagon that was built to replicate animal fighting cages and call that progress.

that’s the human version of saying the horses get treated well which is the least compelling part of my argument not to care about this.

you are just speaking of the professional football players here. what about the thousands of the human versions of “claiming” horses who literally play for free in college, get shuffled through nonsense “educations” for the benefit of rich coaches, only to get nothing in return? Yet we are supposed to get mad about…

probably so...but I really don’t care about animals that much. I’d rather care for and help people have better lives before animals.

I’m not saying there isn’t nuance in here. My feeling is that they are animals, and I’d rather care about humans than animals. Probably some sort of animalism or something that I will one day understand. I also don’t agree with the complete agency you are affording NFL players right here when many have families who…

This is the philosophical debate. Consenting to get into a race car happens at what age, and when, how, and who exposes young men and women to it? To what ends? I mean Jeff Gordon was racing quarter midgets at 5 years old...was he old enough to consent?

I mean we watch hundreds of heavily medicated men running into one another at high speeds every week in stadia built by local tax payers so that rich men can get even richer, and yet this gets people protesting. Maybe I’m just callous and will reflect on this differently one day, but we are talking about animals here.…

This is why Rafa has to win the Aussie in 2020. Then it’s 20-20 and he’d have the career double. That will help people get over the nonsense idea that just because Nadal is amazing on clay that is somehow a detriment to his greatness.

Great article. I really did enjoy it, and to watch for the first time in my memory a match where a seemingly healthy Rafa was the one who would have wanted off the court before his opponent. At the same time, why is it only now that there seems to be a growing sense of inevitability to the idea of Rafa catching Rog…

I played LF on a Men’s League Summer Softball team a few years ago. Three of the four OF, including myself, are either already or on our way to having our Phds in sport sociology. We literally spend our professional lives teaching people about the perils of hypermasculinity, that you don’t need to succumb to playing…

Only here the exploited is an animal whereas slaveowners and madams owned people. I don’t understand people’s love and defense of “animal rights” when that is far down the list of things we’ve got to improve on. Furthermore, couldn’t dog “ownership” in general be characterized similarly here: “feel genuine emotion for…

15 years ago we lived 3 blocks from camden yards and had good seats for a rain delay. Instead of sucking it up we went back to our apartment threw our clothes in the drier and bought a $5 upper deck seat to get back in. I’m sure he did the “I’m Jack White” thing, but this isn’t that hard to do.

I’m all for fun loving players but he’s a Cub which makes him neither fun or loving.

nah man he has losing records to both rafa and djoker...he won his titles in arguably the easiest time to do so of the three, and will probably end up with the 3rd most GSs whilst being 1st in the hearts of many. cruel as it was for him to lose today it just shows how stupid good djoker is

People do realize the Ole Miss literally stands for the Missus of the Plantation right? Every day they step on a court they are promoting racism. 

I rationalized why losing game 7 to those mangy dodgers was better for my health in so many ways, but I could have handled 4 more games of us get our asses beat by the race sox. Perhaps because we were the worst perpetrators of this during the playoffs. I didn’t like it until it worked for me.

But...the indoor practice facility would lie dormant. The one that cost taxpayers of Maryland $80 million.

And to think that they just renovated Cole Field House to become an indoor football practice facility for $150M that then turned into $180M and that it was all supposed to come from private funds. When that plan didn’t pan out they put two classrooms in the place so the state could be asked to cover the rest. BiG was…

And to think I once stood in line at that place hopeful to get tickets for the AA All-Star game that could have featured Michael Jordan. Instead I got Charles Johnson. Did once see Hidecki Irabu give up his first home run in America. Also have all my teeth still.